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of nerves, and possesses glands in the axils of its lower nerves. 

 Moreover, it has very large fruits. 



6. F. dimorpha Pulle. in Lorentz, Nova Guinea, VIII. 

 4, 686 (1912); id. VIII, 2, 402. - A small tree (or climb- 

 ing shrub?); branchlets, etc. glabrous; leaves coriaceous, 

 ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, base rounded, or slightly 

 cordate, apex abruptly or gradually acuminate; opposite or 

 ternate (not on the same plant?); glabrous on both sides; 

 pairs of nerves 4—7; 0—10 glands in the axils of the 

 lower pair; 9—14 by 2V2— 71/3 cM.; petioles 0.4—2.2 cM.; 

 cymes axillary on 3—6 cM. long peduncles, crowded, 

 forming a large terminal inflorescence, 9 cM. long, 14 cM. 

 wide, with large, foliaceous bracts, diminishing towards 

 the top; calyx in bud subobtuse, for '/^ cleaving up into 

 two or three subobtuse lobes; 0.9^ — 1 cM. long, glabrous, 

 with some large glands; pedicels 0.5^ — 0.7 cM.; corolla 

 glabrous, white (or red?), tube 1.4—1.5 cM., lobes 1 — 

 1.3 cM. long, outer side glabrous or with some long hairs; 

 stamens inserted in the throat, glabrous, 4 — 5 cM.; style 

 5 — 6'/3 cM., with somewhat increased stigma; ovary 

 tetragonous, 4-furrowed, densely hairy; [rait a deeply 

 4-lobed drupe or the 4 cells almost free; large, often 

 1^3 cells abortive; cells 1-seeded, sometimes slit up on 

 the inner side, woody, 4—572 cM. long, sometimes 

 sparsely hairy. 



New-Guinea : Versteeg no. 1045, Dutch-N.-G., with 

 buds on May 9*, 1907. — v. Romer, no. 146, North- 

 river, flow, on Sept. 7th, 1909. — ? Moszkoivski no. 432, 

 Paraido, flow, in Dec. 1910. — ? Weinland nos. 180 and 

 183, near Bumi-river, flow, in May 1890. ^ 



We are not sure about the fact, whether ternate and opposite 

 leaves occur on the same tree. If this should not be the matter 

 — which could not be affirmed by the examination of the 

 specimina seen — this should be a legitimate reason for founding 

 2 varieties: a var. «■ opposita and a far. (3 ternata. So Pulle s 



